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Audiobook CD

The birthday boys

by Beryl Bainbridge

2026· 5h 48m

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A brilliantly realised evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

Read by: Simon Mattacks
Language: English
Publisher: Soundings Audio Books
ISBN: 9780750554787

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